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Quotations by author » Aldous Huxley
English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963
Quotes: 81 - 100 of 172 Pages: First ... Previous 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next ... Last
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
Boredom
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
Nonsense
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
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Oh, she's a splendid girl. Wonderfully pneumatic.
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One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
CheatingPatriotism
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
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Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are - there we are in the Golden Future
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Orgy Porgy, Ford and fun. Kiss the girls and make them one. Girls at one with Boys at peace. Orgy progy gives release.
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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Our Ford . . . had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal behinds
People
People travel for the same reason they collect works of art: because the best people do it
TravelWork
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
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Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
Silence
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
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